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Middle East Condemns The London Terror Attacks

I have nothing personal I can add to the terror attacks in London that would be significant. Suffice to say that for many people this matches the level of abhorrence reached during The World Trade Center attacks and Spain’s bombing. England has now had it’s own 9/11. It would be pointless to go into descriptions of haw many died and/or were injured. I cannot speculate as to the precise individuals responsible either. At this point all I can do is present the Middle East countries that have denounced this act.

Saudi Arabia states that all Arab countries need to step up against terror:

Riyadh "reiterates that ... the international community must step up efforts to combat the terrorism scourge, which now threatens our security and the security of all our peoples," the source said.

Yemen expresses full solidarity with England:

Yemeni Foreign Minister Abu Baker al-Kurbi stressed that the "Yemeni government and people denounce such acts which target innocent civilians."

"The Yemeni people express full solidarity with the British people and the government approves any measures to be taken by our British friends in squashing terrorism," he added.

United Arab Emirates makes a condemnation:

In the United Arab Emirates, Deputy Prime Minister Sheik Hamdan bin Zayed al-Nahyan said, "the UAE condemns strongly such ugly crimes and declares its full solidarity with the British government."

Syria and Lebanon made statements against the attacks:

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad called the attacks as "despicable" while Lebanese President Emile Lahoud said his country "shares Britain's pain."

The Lebanese president went on to say:

"Terrorism is an evil that opposes human values and principles. Lebanon, which was the victim of violence for many years, shares the sufferings of the British people," Lahoud said in a statement.

Israel has offered trauma assistance:

The Israel Psychotrauma Center of Jerusalem's Herzog Hospital immediately offered the British assistance in helping trauma victims of the terror attacks.

A team headed by psychologist Dr. Danny Brom went to New York after the Twin Tower terror attacks, Turkey after their earthquakes, Beslan in the former Soviet Union after the terror attack on a school and Southeast Asia in the wake of the deadly tsunami.

Palestine's many factions condemned the bombings:

joined an unbroken chorus of condemnation, as did the Palestinian Authority, the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas and Lebanon's Shi'ite Muslim Hizbollah guerrillas.

Hamas condemned this??

Iran believes violence is not the answer:

In Tehran, a spokesman for Iran's foreign ministry, Hamidreza Asefi, expressed his condolences for the victims and their relatives and said terrorism was inappropriate for achieving any aims.

Kuwait claims these terror attacks are against all human norms:

Kuwait denounced the "terrorist" attacks in a letter to Blair from Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, who is currently in the United States.

"These terrorist attacks which target innocent lives are against all human norms and values," the Kuwaiti premier said in the letter.

Turkey pledged their cooperation:

Turkey, another Middle East victims of terror attacks, denounced the attacks and pledged cooperation in the fight against terrorism, said Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul.

Afghanistan calls it a despicable attack:

The Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, said he was shocked by the news, which he said was a "despicable attack".

Pakistan condemns the attacks:

"It is with a sense of profound grief that, I have learnt of the shocking news of the explosions in Central London, bringing injury, death and devastation to innocent people," President Musharraf said. "We strongly condemn this act terrorism."

Iraq gives a warning:

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said the explosions that hit London proved that terrorism was an global plague that could strike anywhere. "What is happening in Iraq can happen in any country," Talabani, whose country is the scene of daily insurgent bombings, said.

"I'm telling my Arab brothers that terrorism today in Iraq will tomorrow affect other Arab countries, as has already happened in Yemen and Saudi Arabia."

As an additional note, China has condemned these attacks as well:

"Anyone who launches terrorist attacks and causes casualties of civilians should be resolutely condemned, regardless of his or her purpose," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said.

It appears that all of the governments have shown their heartfelt sympathies. It could be that the news is so saturated with this story that the voices of imams everywhere are not being heard over the leaders of countries, but I was unable to locate any quotes by any religious leaders save for the pope. I'm fairly confident this is simply a reporting oversight.

Ted Kennedy's exit strategy

Teddy *hic* Kennedy has formulated a plan to get us out of Iraq. After a long period of time about whining how we have no exit strategy Teddy has shown us all how to to it properly. After all, he has experience with this sort of thing.

Answer below the fold.

Okay, Mustang. Your turn.

Who Kills More People? Guns Or Doctors?

My cousin sent me a little tidbit of information that I just had to check and see if it was just an Internet rumor. I found out it was fact. Here is the quote she sent me:

Doctors: (A) There are 700,000 physicians in the U.S. (B) Accidental deaths caused by physicians total 120,000 per year. (C) Accidental death percentage per physician is 0.171.

Guns: (A) There are 80 million gun owners in the U.S. (B) There are 1,500 accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups. (C) The percentage of accidental deaths per gun owner is 0.0000188.

Statistically, then, doctors are 9,000 times more dangerous to the public health than gun owners. Fact: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR. Following the logic of liberals, we should all be warned: "Guns don't kill people. Doctors do."

Being the little fakt chequer that I am I went to the almighty Google. I ended up running across this article from Nathan Tabor of The Conservative Voice. It was printed in The Canada Free Press January 4th, 2005. Nathan managed to pull out a few golden nuggets about gun control hype that you should really take a peek at. Go Read.

Of course, I've always got to look at things from a different angle. I'm going back to the 17.1% of doctors causing accidental deaths. Is there any wonder why we have a malpractice suit problem in this country? I don't believe that Bush's solution of putting up a $250,000 pain and suffering cap really got to the root of the problem.

Are you aware that if you are kicked out of the AMA in one state for shoddy doctoring all you have to do is move over to the next state? In my eyes a crappy doctor that got his or her degree from a Cracker Jack box could "accidentally" kill 50 people before they're done. Can't the American Medical Association pull their collective heads from their back ends and catch the bad doctors and bar them nationally? How about we try to make a federal mandate?

Maybe someone can enlighten me as to why this 17.1% statistic exists? Did I miss some critical fact? Does this include all the bad prescriptions written due to the forced drug pushing procedures enacted by drug companies?

Whatever the deal, the next time I get sick I just may be going down to the local gun range. I might be safer there.

This article is also available at BNN.

So many rants, so little time

Today I have a dilemma. It's the same dilemma I've had for a few days now. It's basically the main reason I haven't been posting much...that and my newfound World of Warcraft addiction.

The deal is that there are just too many stories I could be ranting about that I'm locked up cold. I can't pick one and just go with it. So here I am, asking you, my few readers, what I should write about:

1. Who should be the next Supreme Court Justice?

2. Democrat says Gulag = Censure. Republican says some liberals too sensitive to terrorists needs = RESIGN! Do we have a double standard here?

3. File swapping companies can now be sued.

4. Eminent Domain. Need I say any more?

5. The real torturers at Gitmo: the detainees.

6. why Iraq is STILL NOT Vietnam.

7. What should we do with the filibuster?

8. Now that I covered boobies should I move on to other body parts?

9. Atkins is worthless and doesn't f**king work!

10. The best option for known terrorists: Hire mercenaries.

Well, I could probably go on for a good ten more, but these are the most pressing. I'd talk about borders but it's sort of a moot point considering no one one either side of congress really gives a rat's ass about it.

So here I sit, waiting for someone to steer me in the right direction. Someone please guide me.

Patriotic Pictures 4th Of July Extravaganza!

Happy 4th Of July Everybody!

Today will be an assembly of patriotic pictures in on big fat stinkin' blowout extravaganza! It's gonna be one big blur of red, white and blue so hold on to your shorts!

First things first:

Amy from ProcheinAmy sent me a picture that started it all off. Really, she visits this place quite frequently and I really owe it to her just for reader loyalty's sake. Anyway, here's the first picture of Amy's girls at a "Support The Troops" rally:

Now that we have the image that started today's idea off, here's a bunch more with the links of where I got them from:

This one taken from the city of Henderson's website. I have no Idea what state.

This one is from The Community Foundation in Richmond, Virginia:

Here are two from Ben Stokeman's personal family site:

Here's a canned image from some power and electric company called SRP:

This one is taken from Schiezer's Gallery:

The Akiba Academy had a mock presidential convention. Since it's a Hebrew academy it's sort of obvious who won: John F. Kerry. Yeah, I thought Lieberman was going to win as well.
(Looking through the images I notice that their Kerry representative was played by "the hot chick".)

This one is from The Ranch FM 92 in Fredricksburg. Is there something about Virginia that just screams patriotism?

Here's one from Steward Army base when the president came for a visit:

Here's the caption from here: LINK
PATRIOTIC KIDS: Levy Shaw, 3, right, recites the Pledge of Allegiance with other preschoolers, such as Aiko Miranda, 4, left, at the Precious Preschoolers Learning Center in Tamuning, Guam. After the Sept. 11 attacks on America, many schools on Guam joined millions of Americans in promoting patriotism.
(COPYRIGHT 2002/PACIFIC DAILY NEWS)

Yes, these kids from Hillview Acres Children's Home and Foster Family Agency died their hair red, white and blue. Lets hope it gets them a good foster parent.

This kid was at a 4th of July run. Image courtesy of The Village Runner:

This last of thirteen is from a 4th of July celebration in Bothell, WA:

Anybody wondering why only thirteen? Yes, everyone get's a cookie. Thirteen original colonies.

Now I have a challenge:
I've given you the first 13 I need the other 37 for the rest of the states. If we get more than 37 I'll include Guam and Puerto Rico and whatever other contries we're close to.

C'mon People!
Send me your Pictures!
Link me your Pictures!

14. I'm linking directly to Jess at LOSLI for this extra one. call it D.C. if you want. You'll see why I didn't steal the image once you're there. Let me just give you the caption:

I solemly swear to protect the flag.
Even if I have to lay my body over it to protect it from harm

15. Here's one e-mailed to my from EIP:
American David Zabriskie (CSC) retained the race leader's yellow jersey with a two-second lead on six-time winner Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel), who finished with all the main contenders. (Courtesy VeloNews)

16. Stop The ACLU has one up:

17. William Teach over at The Pirates Cove has a good pinup. We have the same situation here as we did with LOSLI. I won't take the image bot give a link.

18. Amy, the instigator of this whole thing has more patriotic pictures to share. Here's one more from Amy at ProcheinAmy:

On Friday, the girl's day care had a 4th of July Parade. Luckily my anti-MIL and FIL were able to get pictures. The parade route took a whopping 10 minutes as they walked around the school. And they went all out for those 10 minutes. Hats, decorations, noise makers and a bunch of kids and teachers in red, white and blue! (Oldest was sick that day, so no pictures of her.)

19. Gordon, over at Cranky Neocon has a message from Brian Williams. I'm not sure who Brian Williams is so I'll let you go ask him yourselves. LINK

UP TO 19 PICS! 31 OR MORE REMAINING!

Happy 4th of July everyone! Happy 229th aniversary of the Declaration of Independence! Happy Independence Day!

An American Housewife Has Lost Her Husband

No, he did not leave her. He went to a better place. No amount of words can convey the grief that she is more than likely feeling. I can only imagine how it must feel.

If you wish to leave your heart you can go to her site, An American Housewife, or you can go the Beth's place, MVRWC and donate.

I wish her and her family my deepest condolences.

Patriotic Pictures 3

Found this image from the patriots at 4 Girls Only Productions.

(Music warning. The page I'm sending you to has built in music.)

(More for the 4th...MUCH more for the fourth. Tell all your friends, and a few of your enemies.)